For our annual August tribute to film composers, we spotlight four giants of the 1960s: Elmer Bernstein, John Barry, Burt Bacharach, and Richard Rodney Bennett. Highlights from their major movie and theater achievements of the era.

And people called it Ragtime . . .\ we celebrate the unique syncopation of this score. Brian Stokes Mitchell, Audra McDonald, Marin Mazzie and more.

It was an era when life was just a bowl of cherries, there was good news, whoopee, with cream in your coffee. Explore Broadway's happiest hits from the 1920s and early 30s with Eddie Cantor, Ethel Merman, and more.

It’s summertime and we’re cranking up the car radio and listening to songs about every major city or state from Maine to California, from I-95 to the I-10; tunes from Ragtime, The Most Happy Fella, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, and more. 

The Broadway catalogue of Judy Garland is celebrated on her centenary. Classic songs by the Gershwins, Rodgers with Hart and Hammerstein, Jule Styne, Noël Coward and more (and partnered by Sinatra, Crosby, and Liza among others).

We invited Kelli O'Hara to our virtual studio for a chat and an hour of her most stunning performances from South Pacific, Light in the Piazza, Bridges of Madison County, O'Hara rarities and much more.

The second part of our two-part interview with Mark Eden Horowitz, editor of "The Letters of Oscar Hammerstein II": Now, we move on to OH2 and Rodgers, Sondheim, and the "what-ifs" of this mighty career. Songs performed by Nat King Cole, Audra McDonald, Dinah Shore, and more.